The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 13
... perpetually contradicts itself . Its powers , instead of acting together , like well - trained soldiers , will be ever jostling each other , like a disorderly mob . The zeal for special reforms in morality that so strongly characterizes ...
... perpetually contradicts itself . Its powers , instead of acting together , like well - trained soldiers , will be ever jostling each other , like a disorderly mob . The zeal for special reforms in morality that so strongly characterizes ...
الصفحة 23
... perpetually of the rights or of the wrongs of man or of woman , of the citi- zen or of the criminal , and of the slave ; but the duties of these classes seem to have passed out of sight . Now it is only when all shall fulfil their ...
... perpetually of the rights or of the wrongs of man or of woman , of the citi- zen or of the criminal , and of the slave ; but the duties of these classes seem to have passed out of sight . Now it is only when all shall fulfil their ...
الصفحة 52
... perpetually acts and speaks as if it were of no consequence what is said or done . If any one venture to suggest a different mode of speech or action , the reply is pretty sure to be , " O , it is of no consequence ! " As if an immortal ...
... perpetually acts and speaks as if it were of no consequence what is said or done . If any one venture to suggest a different mode of speech or action , the reply is pretty sure to be , " O , it is of no consequence ! " As if an immortal ...
الصفحة 64
... perpetually , whether we will or no , and let us look to it that we think to some good purpose . How much Thought is worse than wasted in planning how wealth , which too often profiteth not , may be acquired , while the true riches that ...
... perpetually , whether we will or no , and let us look to it that we think to some good purpose . How much Thought is worse than wasted in planning how wealth , which too often profiteth not , may be acquired , while the true riches that ...
الصفحة 108
... perpetually liable to gross self - deception by thus transferring in fancy our love or our hate for the consequences of vices or virtues to the vices or virtues themselves . If we made this transfer in fact , we should at once set about ...
... perpetually liable to gross self - deception by thus transferring in fancy our love or our hate for the consequences of vices or virtues to the vices or virtues themselves . If we made this transfer in fact , we should at once set about ...
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الصفحة 23 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw. And 'deal damnation round the land. On each I judge thy foe.
الصفحة 212 - Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society ; learn to admire rightly ; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired ; they admired great things : narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
الصفحة 7 - ... never reach, and had I but the power of rightly disposing and relating them, his single example would be more instructive than all the rules of the best moralists, for his practice was of a more Divine extraction, drawn from the Word of God and wrought up by the assistance of His Spirit...
الصفحة 7 - By Christianity I intend that universal habit of grace which is wrought in a soul by the regenerating Spirit of God, whereby the whole creature is resigned up into the divine...